Prostate cancer is common and often is associated with pain. Currently, neoplasms of the prostate include 23% of all new cases of cancer in men, and these are second only to lung cancer as the cause of cancer death in men.' Black men have the highest incidence of prostate cancer in the world, estima
Pain in the cancer patient
β Scribed by R. M. Bowen Wright
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-1238
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